Premise:
Spock 1, 2 and 3 debuted in my exhibition titled "Mirror
Universe" which exemplified my continued interest in the
links between art and science-- in particular how consciousness and the
act of seeing create the illusion of a stable, predictable, and singular
universe.

The
title "Mirror Universe" was inspired by the 1967 Star Trek episode
Mirror, Mirror in which a transporter mishap switches the crew of the
Enterprise with their evil counterparts, trapping them in a "savage parallel
universe." This struck a poignant chord.

Although
I am not a "Trekkie," I have a vague recollection of watching reruns of
the original Star Trek series in the 1970s with my father. I also watched
Star Trek: The Next Generation (a.k.a. TNG) for a while in late 1980s,
but I was never a fanatic until 2002, when for a few months, I began scheduling
my days so I could watch reruns of Star Trek: TNG shown every afternoon
on Spike TV. I remember wondering why I was so intrigued.

Eventually
I realized that series Star Trek: TNG offered an escape from the tumultuous
post 9-11 world by presenting a utopian perspective of humanity at its
best. The mission of the TNG Enterprise was exploration and with the exception
of the Borg (their defining motto was "resistance is futile"), the crew's
confrontations with alien life-forms were mostly based on misunderstandings
and cultural differences vs. battles between good and evil. The idea of
doing a series based on Star Trek has been gestating since that time.
The concept and title for this exhibition gelled when I realized every
Star Trek series had at least one episode based on the concept of a mirror
or parallel universe, which fit in with my ongoing interest in the link
between art and science, human perception, and subjective reality.

About
Parallel Universes:"For years Parallel Universes
have been a staple of science fiction. Scientists now believe there may
really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number
of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. It started
when superstring theory, hyperspace and dark matter made physicists realize
that the three dimensions we thought described the Universe weren't enough.
By the time they had finished they'd come to the conclusion that there
are eleven dimensions and that our Universe is just one bubble among an
infinite number of membranous bubbles which ripple as they wobble through
the eleventh dimension."- Quoted from the BBC Television Program: Parallel
Universes (February, 14, 2002)

*Partial
funding by Coats and Clark

Devorah
Sperber is a New York-based artist whose sculptures, composed of thousands
of ordinary objects, negotiate a terrain between low and high tech. Her
labor-intensive works explore repetition and the effects of digital technology
on perception, scale, and subjective reality. -Patricia Phillips, Executive
Editor, Art Journal